THE MANDATE OF THE
INTERNATIONAL
ANARCHIST TRIBUNAL

The Anarchist Press Tribunal (APT) is a special
branch of IAT, the International Anarchist Tribunal of
IAF/IFA/AI - The
International of Anarchist Federations, l'Internationale des Fédérations
Anarchistes, The Anarchist International:

Some facts about the
International Anarchist Tribunal:

The mandating IFA-congress for the International
Anarchist Tribunal was initiated by the general secretary of IFA
at that time, i.e. the Italian C.R.I.F.A. secretary Umberto
Marzocchi, in a letter to the nordic sections of IFA (ANORG)
dated 12th of May 1982. The congress took place in Oslo 15-18th
of October 1982, at "Folkets hus", i.e. "The house
of the people", and was arranged by the Norwegian Anarchist
Federation affiliated to IFA. The first Nordic IFA-congress had
two important tasks:

1. to promote the anarchist international outside the
mediterranean area in general,

2. to mandate the international's anarchist tribunals to
secure that the IFA stays anarchist.

From the Nordic countries broadly defined participated several
anarchist groups and organizations, and nationalities (sections)
from the Netherlands to Finland; and the mediterranean IFA-sections
were represented by a delegation from Paris, i.e. from the French
anarchist-federation "Fédération Anarchiste Francaise".
Different kinds of anarchists; collectivists, individualists, social-individualists and
communist/commune anarchists, as well as anarcho-syndicalists, green anarchists and
international anarchafeminists had delegates (sections) at the
congress. Also Sveriges Arbetares Centralorganisation (SAC)
participated, as well as delegates from the IAA section of ANORG/IFA,
a confederation rooted back to the Scandinavian anarcho-syndicalist
organ "Solidaritet" which kept the bounds to the AIT
when SAC left in 1959/60. (This does not mean that NAC/ANORG is a
member of IAA/AIT. It means that anarchosyndicalists that were or
are affilated to an IAA/AIT-section, also were affiliated to the
congress/ANORG/IFA).

The mandate for the anarchist tribunals was unanimously
decided upon, and referred (however without details) in IFA-Solidaritet,
later renamed International Journal of Anarchism, vol 1982 a.s.o.
and the Bulletin C.R.I.F.A. (42) 1982, the two official organs of
IFA at that time. This issue of the Bulletin C.R.I.F.A was also
distributed as a supplement to the French anarchist paper "Le
Monde Libertaire" (467). An English translation was also
distributed. In the mentioned issue of Bulletin C.R.I.F.A. the
following is documented:

The mandate included the UN-human rights and ethics
interpreted in an anarchist way, media tribunals, anarchist
decision processing and conflict solution, including a confederal
veto on ratification of federal decisions and constitution, i.e.
based on the IFA-principles a.s.o., membership acknowledgement,
suspensions, disallowances
and exclusions/expulsions, etc. The international anarchist ombudsman
for conflict solution and the arbitration
tribunal, are also among the branches of
IAT. The practical details of the mandate were left to the
International Anarchist Tribunal itself, as an independent and
autonomous institution at the IFA secretariate in Oslo.

The
International Anarchist Tribunal via the Anarchist Press Tribunal
a.o.t. issues expelling Brown
Cards to ochlarchist infiltrators to the anarchist movement as a
part of the Anarchist Internationals general struggle against
ochlarchy (mob rule broadly defined) and ochlarchist infiltration. Ochlarchist
infiltrators are of course not a part of the anarchist movement
although often posing as anarchists. IAT expulses adherents of capitalism (economical plutarchy) and/or statism, with or without ochlarchy, falsely posing as 'anarchists'. This is libertarian. Expulsions are not authoritarian purges. Remember the famous anarchist Proudhon stated 'anarchy is order' i.e. optimal order. The IAT also hands out the opposite of Brown Cards, i.e. Black Stars, see the IAT-homepage.

The Anarchist Tribunal was already an established institution
in Norway in 1982, as a part of the expeditionary group (secretariate)
of ANORG. In the early 1980s the activities was mainly internal,
but some of the works of the Anarchist Tribunal , i.e. vis-à-vis
the media, were also published in Folkebladet/IJ@, see no 1 (13)
1983 and no 3 (13) 1983. The IFA congress in Oslo 1982 made it an
international tribunal. Thus, it became de facto
the International Anarchist Tribunal - IAT,
although the word "international" was usually not
explicitely mentioned in the early days.

The framework for the Oslo Convention of 1990 was prepared by
the International Anarchist Tribunal, and is a good example of
the mandated work. The proposals from IAT were unanimously
decided upon by the international congress-seminar, the 1st
Anarchist Biennial , i.e. the first combined IFA &
FICEDL Congress arranged in Oslo 1990.

The only officially mandated organ of IFA/IAF/AI of today, i.e.
for the whole world, the International Journal of Anarchism
ISSN 0800-0220,
electronic issues ISSN 1890-9485 since 2009, is also the organ of the International Anarchist
tribunal, and has the copyright/TM of the original IFA-logo, with
the globe as the dot over the "i" in "ifa". All
information at the official ifa/iaf/ai/AIIS web-site is the
copyrighted material of International Journal of Anarchism ISSN
0800-0220 & ISSN 1890-9485 (c) fb@ - all rights reserved 1996 a.l.

In 1997 the term Anarchist International
(AI) was officially introduced, although mentioned
several times before, say, in International Journal of
Anarchism, IJ@ no 10/26 (15) in 1985. The
constitution of the Anarchist International AI was officially
confirmed on the International Anarchist Congress, i.e. the 5th
Anarchist Biennial, arranged by the NAC/IFA/AI in Oslo medio
December 1998. The AI is a broader organization and network than
the IFA anarchist federations of some countries in the South and
North, see the Anarchist International. The mandate of the IAT is today vis-à-vis the AI, decided on
the 5th Anarchist Biennial.

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Several keywords and media all over the world are investigated
by the APT-IAT, among them the following: